The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.